. . . if you purchased them in North America. That's the word from a Mitsui rep I corresponded with recently. I'm no shill for Mitsui, but I use them all the time, as do many others in this community. Here is what I was told. Keep in mind, of course, that HE is presumably not objective about his company's products. Nonetheless, there is some useful information here -- take it for what it is worth. Also -- he sent me a PowerPoint presentation about Mitsui products that I found informative. If you want it, drop me a note.
---Begin note from Mitsui--- The country of origin does not have any direct influence on the disc quality. Historically, the Japanese have consistently made higher quality discs than the Taiwanese or Chinese. A Japanese company (Taiyo Yuden), was the biggest contributor in the invention of CD-R. Mitsui also holds patents and was the second manufacturer to make CD-Rs. The Taiwanese learned much of what they know about CD-Rs from Japanese companies, but have not been able to keep the quality as high---in fact they ship everything they make & define the rejects as "lower grade" media. Mitsui only offers a single, high grade of media and we still reject ~10% of everything we make. We're not happy about the high reject rate, but we have found that it's the only way to maintain the level of quality that people expect from our media. We set the max defect size at 160 microns, while most of our competitors reject at 400 microns! We also have a patent on the Phthalocyanine dye that performs much better than anything else available. (see www.mitsuicdrstore.com for white papers). The duplication reject rate that our customers experience with our media is ~ 1/10 of 1% (feedback from large corporate customers). All of the CD-R media that we distribute in North America is manufactured in our Colorado plant. ---End Message from Mitsui--- Pete -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chicago, Illinois _______________________________________________ etree.org etree mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.etree.org/mailman/listinfo/etree Need help? Ask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
